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2 of my colleagues run SQL on their laptops; I have a lower spec laptop, so I run it on a desktop with 128 GB of RAM If you are a developer you absolutely do n
by goatinaboat 5y ago
2 of my colleagues run SQL on their laptops; I have a lower spec laptop, so I run it on a desktop with 128 GB of RAM
If you are a developer you absolutely do not need 128GB of RAM to run SQL Server! But if it convinces your management to buy you top spec kit, fair play to you.
- AdrianB1 5y agoThey are developers, I am the manager, so they do more SQL work than me. Some of the databases we work with are over 1TB, a lot of RAM is needed to run queries fast (in memory). I prefer a good desktop any day to a half-baked laptop that is thermal constrained.
- goatinaboat 5y agoI prefer a good desktop any day to a half-baked laptop that is thermal constrained. Agree with you there, while a 1T database is possible on a laptop I wouldn’t want to use it for real work!
- secondcoming 5y agoI was skeptical too but my laptop doesn't thermally throttle when running cinebench r23. I changed the thermal paste to Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Extreme (I don't have the courage to use liquid metal yet). It's quicker than my admittedly old 4790k desktop to build our code